Re: xetex and external pdf stretching

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 9/5/07, Andrea Valle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm experimenting with xetex as suggested. All ok up to know.
> But I'm having a strange problem with figures.
> Typically I create my diagrams with Omnigraffle, export them in pdf (default
> setting) and reimport them in ConTeXt. Always fine.
>
> Using texexec --xtx I'm having a strange scale in vertical dimension, i.e.
> the figure is vertically stretched. The figure is ok, because the problem
> does not arise when I omit the -xtx flag.
>
> The code I'm using is trivial
>
> \placefigure{{\em Semiotiche}: produzione, distribuzione e accesso.}
> {\externalfigure[pipeline][width=\textwidth]}
>
> No stretching using a png instead of a pdf

I have just figured out that weird scaling of jpg figures came from
XeTeX, not from ConTeXt. Actually, xdv2pdf driver works OK, while
xdvipdfmx driver uses some arbitrary scaling. (I might be that
resolution wrong in original file, but \XeTeXpicfile "file" width5cm
should result in exactly 5cm width, no more and no less.)

Can you send me one of problematic PDFs? I would like to check whether
the problem lies in ConTeXt or XeTeX ...

Mojca
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